http://sites.google.com/feeds/content/site/twospiritgroup2018-02-22T06:57:15.394ZPosts of RECENT WORKGoogle Sites1http://sites.google.com/feeds/content/site/twospiritgroup/17452627486706795232015-11-02T17:28:00.457Z2015-11-02T17:29:44.495Z2015-11-02T17:29:42.242ZRotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise

This project involved implementing a cloud computing solution and redesign of four websites.

As general manager, I am responsible for strategic direction and operations. Spiral Foods Cooperative is a grassroots effort building a cooperative market that showcases local food with minimal packaging. Our facility will include a market, and a commercial kitchen/cannery, and a deli/café.

BUCKS 'n BARKS is a local, family-owned tack and pet store. Early in 2010, we began kicking around the idea of opening a premiere tack and pet store for West Sonoma County.

This project was a redesign of BUCKS 'n BARKS website to update information and to give it a contemporary looks.

Wayne Wieselertwospiritgroup@gmail.combucksbarks5http://sites.google.com/feeds/content/site/twospiritgroup/35808918248109813622013-06-08T23:09:26.042Z2013-06-08T23:11:52.181Z2013-06-08T23:11:49.928ZWebsite refines look and feel for local historical society

Two Spirit Group announces release of newly-refined Historical Society website.

The Historical Society wanted a more contemporary look and feel that would excite people about the area’s history. The new site capitalized on current website functionality including slideshows and videos as well as blogging and fill-in forms. The front page of the website will be ever changing with upcoming events and news from the Historical Society.

Individuals will be able to subscribe to periodic announcements via email to keep them abreast of upcoming events in the area. In the near future, people will be able to query a large historical archive of thousands of images and information from the past. It will be a valuable tool for individuals who are researching their genealogy and the history of western Sonoma County. In addition to this, shoppers will be able to purchase merchandise online from the Historical Society’s Gift Shop.

Two Spirit Group announces release of new Historical Society website
Two Spirit Group donated over 125 hours of volunteer work to design and develop a new website for the Western Sonoma County Historical Society.

I grew up in a very small farming/ranching community in South Dakota where giving back was not expected--it was a way of life. I encourage you to donate your talent and experience to your community.

The Historical Society wanted a more contemporary look and feel that would excite people about the area’s history. The new site capitalized on current website functionality including slideshows and videos as well as blogging and fill-in forms. The front page of the website will be ever changing with upcoming events and news from the Historical Society.

Individuals will be able to subscribe to periodic announcements via email to keep them abreast of upcoming events in the area.
In the near future, people will be able to query a large historical archive of thousands of images and information from the past. It will be a valuable tool for individuals who are researching their genealogy and the history of western Sonoma County. In addition to this, shoppers will be able to purchase merchandise online from the Historical Society’s Gift Shop.

Beth Buchanan MFT, BC-DTR is a skilled therapist with over 20 years experience using the disciplines of Dance Movement Therapy, Somatics, and Marriage Family Therapy with clients of all ages.

Her love of her work has led her to varied settings and populations : teens in group homes, parents and children at a trauma center, psychiatric and educational facilities, and families seeking help with domestic violence.

Years of experience pulled together
into one medium — encaustic painting

Catherine McCauley's artwork over the past twelve years has consisted of, for the most part, encaustic painting. With the encaustic technique, she is able to pull together years of experience with ceramics, sculpture, textiles, drawing and painting into one medium. This process lends itself to revealing a history, the creation of the work itself, by building up, then scraping back into the layers. Vibrant colors, luminosity and surface quality are merely a few of the appealing characteristics of encaustics.

Much of McCauley's work is inspired by nature and the places she has lived, from the Palos Verdes Peninsula to Santa Barbara and finally, Sonoma County. A lifetime love of the ocean inspires her palette along with themes in her paintings.

Working with beeswax enables McCauley to build, excavate, scribble, tear down and rebuild until the work’s final destination reveals itself. Accidents can happen which, most of the time, work out well. Encaustic is a wonderful process, a challenge she will continue to welcome.

McCauley's encaustics have been published in The American Art Collector, an annual juried collection of national artists. She has been teaching encaustic painting classes both privately and through Riley Street Art Supplies in Sonoma County since 2002

Wayne Wieselertwospiritgroup@gmail.comtheartofcatherinemccauley6http://sites.google.com/feeds/content/site/twospiritgroup/41904657480412361972011-02-27T17:46:50.786Z2013-06-08T20:30:21.594Z2013-06-08T20:30:20.093ZArt at The Source Sales and Marketing Seminar

Continuing to Thrive in a New Economy

Over 50 artists participating in the 2011 Art at The Source gathered on Saturday, February 26, 2011, to find creative ways to increase their visibility and sales through marketing in the current social network world during a challenging economy.

The panel was comprised of artists in the program who have had proven success in the business of the arts. They engaged the gathering with ideas, brainstorming sessions, and share successes of what works and what does not. They provided a wealth of information and willingness to share.

The seminar included various topics including: Internet Marketing (Guest Speaker), Websites, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, advertising, and much more. They explored designing a professional look in resumes, artist's statement, portfolio, brochures, and postcards. They also discussed selling techniques.

Other topics covered were: studio location, layout, displays, and signage; presentation of work within the studio, and merchandising.

Sari Photography sessions offer insight, counsel and sound technical thinking. Sari balances her passion for photography and her well-traveled global perspective with playfulness and dedication. Her business focuses on capturing vitality by first building a relationship, then clearing the blocks some people may have toward their body image. This supports the person in front of her camera to be captured as Mother Nature intended--vital and free.

R & T Outdoor Furniture has been been building standard and custom-built redwood chairs, benches, teetertates, tables, and more in this area for over 25 years. Their responsibly-priced furniture is made from beautiful, unfinished redwood, and well-constructed for years of enjoyment.

Abstract influences have been very strong in Karen Greif's work. Painting a representational chair isn’t as exciting as interpreting a chair as an abstract. The challenge is to paint the essence of a chair without its form. With acrylic paint and other media, her colors assume lines, shapes, composition and balance.

The painting leads Greif and tells her what to do next. Karen Greif was raised in California and attended workshops and classes throughout the years absorbing influences from her work in interior decorating, refinishing furniture, tole painting, Ikebana, mosaic tile work and other crafts. She is a full-time painter and her work leans towards Asian influences.

Lynn Werner has been creating jewelry that inspires the spirit and causes heart-healthy living.

Her passion is in design, playing with beads, each uniquely handcrafted. She loves combining colors and materials in new ways. Spirit’s guidance has opened her to Bracelets for Change where she can do her spiritual work while creating beauty. She creates all her hypoallergenic pieces with heartfull love.

Casa Carolina needed an interim innkeeper

A delightful vacation rental located in the heart of the Sonoma County Wine Country. Located in the Russian River Appellation, one of the wine regions nearest the Golden Gate. The Casa is only two miles from downtown Sebastopol with its awarded bistros and variety of shops. In a 20-minute drive you'll find the Pacific Coast and beautiful beach trails.

Faye Potts and Nancy Turak, partners in the Alliance for Healthcare Consulting, have over forty years of combined healthcare management experience and offer services that include effective provider network strategy and contract negotiations, and improving operations and profitability.

Carport Gallery shows an eclectic variety of
local artists with work ranging from photography, sculpture, fabrics,
paints, etc. If you are ever in the Russian River area, this is a
must-see place to visit.

Two Spirit Group was instrumental launching a new web site for the Sebastopol Community Cultural Center. The new site will allow them to better communicate with their friends and neighbors in Sebastopol and surrounding area. It will also allow members to better communicate with The Center. Here is a partial list of benefits this new website allows.

Add new members

New members will be able to register for a free online subscription to the events and news happening at The Center and in the greater Sebastopol Area. Once and no more than twice a month they may receive an email from The Center letting them know what is happening at their community center. Their personal information will be secure and it will not be shared or sold.

See new classes immediately

Members will be able to see, register, and pay for new classes as they are introduced. Prior to this The Center published the Activities Guide three times a year. That meant that even if a class was ready to start, it meant waiting up to three to four months for it to be announced.

Rent facilities for event, facilities, classes

One of the most important resources The Center offers to the community is space. They have several indoor and outdoor facilities.

Efficient use of member contributions

We share your commitment to making sure the maximum use of every
dollar that you donate to your community center. By automating many of
our current tasks, we will ensure the maximum portion of your donations
will go to programming rather than operational overhead.

Collaboration

This site will allow greater collaboration with other resources in the community. The Sebastopol community-focused non-profits will be able to give members visibility to various events and functions.

Events Calendar

So the members' weekend is free and they would like to take their family and friends to a community event or festival. They click on the Events Calendar button and instantly will see the vast arrange happenings at the Sebastopol Community Cultural Center.

Continuing commitment to environmental sensitivity

Just as with their Solar project at the Youth Annex, they fulfill their commit to environmental sensitivity. The Center currently publishes and distributes their paper-based Activities Guide as well as many other promotional materials. In addition to this, they use volumes of paper with events and classes. By reducing their demand on resources, they commit themselves of being good custodians of our Mother Earth.

Constant quality improvement

As The Center grows their programming, they will continue to add and modify their new internet site. The Center will work with members through their input to evolve The Center's internet site to be a valued resource to the Sebastopol community.

Wayne Wieselertwospiritgroup@gmail.comtwospiritgroupsupportsnewwebsitelaunch9http://sites.google.com/feeds/content/site/twospiritgroup/30082410676605460162011-08-11T14:00:02.701Z2013-06-08T18:36:11.104Z2013-06-08T18:36:10.133ZRussian River Studios publishes new web site

Russian River Studios working with Two Spirit Group published a new web site in mid-July 2011.

Russian River Studios' quaint, uniquely-styled studios are clean, comfortable, and responsibly priced. Their fully-equipped kitchens, are perfect for morning coffee and a bit of breakfast, a quick lunch, or a simple evening meal. Watch TV, read, and take in our gardens to relax after a fun-filled day.

Their web site has been completely revamped with a new color palette as well as many new features.

Villa Caserena reports that its business is booming after working with Two Spirit Group approximately two years ago. Two Spirit Group provide business development consulting as well as web site development and photography.

The owner reports that she is turning away so much business that she is going to offer another vacation rental just to capture the business coming her way.

Villa Caserena is a vacation rental located in Santa Rosa in the heart of the world famous Napa and Sonoma counties' wine country.

Nicole Ours launched her first web site in conjunction with Two Spirit Group.

The new web site features her artwork as well as information about her art and herself.

She majored in Fine Arts on scholarships to Mills College. Since this was during the era of Abstract Expressionism, Nicole primarily self-taught. As president of the North Coast Artists' Guild of the Gualala Art Center, She participated in the Studio Discovery Tour and developed community venues where the work of local artists was exhibited.

As a part of the Art At The Source program sponsored by the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Nicole continued to showcase her oil paintings and to develop community venues for art shows. She has been a Resident Artist at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts. Her prize-winning work has been in juried exhibits in Mendocino, Sonoma, and Marin Counties. Nicole has oil paintings in collections throughout the United States.

Wayne Wieselertwospiritgroup@gmail.comnicoleoursartstudiolaunchesfirstwebsite8http://sites.google.com/feeds/content/site/twospiritgroup/1111462882191771722011-12-08T14:56:53.074Z2013-06-08T18:27:41.741Z2013-06-08T18:27:40.691ZTwo Spirit Group generates new attendance at Cemetery Walk

The West Sonoma County Historical Society reported an increase of new participants at its annual Cemetery Walk. The Society attributed it to the publicity effort provided by Two Spirit Group.

Two Spirit Group greatly increased exposure of the Cemetery Walk by getting articles and pictures in area newspapers and online news media. Two Spirit Group's has over 23 media contacts and places new and information in many online outlets. Contact us to get your advertising and news in front of the greatest number of people in the area.

Two Spirit Group also photographed and provided public relations services as a follow-up to the event.

Cemetery Walk

Photography by Wayne Wieseler

Wayne Wieselertwospiritgroup@gmail.comtwospiritgroupgeneratesnewattendanceatcemeterywalk22http://sites.google.com/feeds/content/site/twospiritgroup/82401635000300957372012-02-24T15:50:54.531Z2013-06-08T18:26:21.565Z2013-06-08T18:26:19.832ZTwo Spirit Group installs new accounting system for Twin Hill Ranch

Two Spirit Group installed and configured a new QuickBooks accounting system for Twin Hill Ranch. In addition to this, Two Spirit Group provided training on the new accounting system to the office manager and owner.

Wayne Wieseler's extensive background in business operations and various accounting systems allowed Twin Hill Ranch to install the new system without disruption of its normal business operations.

Two Spirit Group implemented a cloud computing solution for the Visual Arts Program at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts to optimize their Call for Entries process. This is an intranet site, which is only visible to select individuals and group.

Artists now can enter their artwork for shows, and pay application fees more easily. If artists wish, they can send images of the art directly to The Center without having to burn a CD and delivering it by mail or hand. This solution greatly reduces the amount of time and ensures much more accuracy for the artwork submitted.

In addition to this, Two Spirit Group provides marketing services, website design and development, and image management solutions.